The Name above All Names: A new section is clearly indicated by the fresh heading in 12:1, even though we are still listening to the second speech of Moses, which began at 5:1. The next such heading is at 29:1, after the blessings and curses in chapters 27–28. Chapters 12–26 form the central section of the book, characterized by the preaching of specific laws and sometimes given the title, “the Deuteronomic Code.” However, it is important not to be unduly influenced by this identification of separate sections. There is a temptation in reading Deuteronomy to regard chapters 1–11 as the grand sermonic introduction and then to treat chapters 12–26 as nothing more than a law code, to be investigated in comparison with the legal sections of Exodus and Leviticus and in the light of whatever hist…